{"id":2557,"date":"2021-06-02T07:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2021-06-02T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:33:27","slug":"always-expect-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2021\/06\/02\/always-expect-the-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Expect the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/171685963\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While out checking a Peregrine site and witnessed one of the adults make a couple of unusual passes through a small stand of trees\u2026something I\u2019ve never seen before and  found it out of character and wondered why ??<br \/>\nJust after the final pass it became apparent when I heard the Hoo-h-Hoo of a Great Horned Owl.<br \/>\nMy focus quickly changed and soon located the nest with one lone owlet.<\/p>\n<p>Great Horns are properly the only predator of the Peregrine Falcon and perhaps the passes by the nest was a warning to the owl.<\/p>\n<p>Just another case of\u2026always Expect the Unexpected when Mother Nature is involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While out checking a Peregrine site and witnessed one of the adults make a couple of unusual passes through a small stand of trees\u2026something I\u2019ve never seen before and found it out of character and wondered why ?? Just after the final pass it became apparent when I heard the Hoo-h-Hoo of a Great Horned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-great-horned-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}